Popsie wrote:
NYCgrrl wrote:
Popsie wrote:
Here is an article that says Yelp posts bad reviews unless businesses advertise with them ?
I came to a different conclusion after reading the article: Yelp won a lawsuit that alleged it was exhorting local businesses for advertising fees:h. It's critics still want them to reveal the formula of the algorithm used for weeding out false reviews but uhmmmm well if it was my business don't think I would.
The article did not say that the court found that Yelp did not base reviews on whether or not the business bought advertising.
Here is the relevant section out of the story: the court said that, even if Yelp did manipulate reviews to penalize businesses, the practice would not constitute extortion.
So the relevant part of the story to you is that the court didn't require an answer to the question you wanted Yelp to respond to but instead made it's judgment based solely on the allegation(s) in front of it?
Only one solution I can think of: start your own lawsuit and then you can get to the bottom of the entire affair.
